What does detective work mean?
Definitions for detective work
de·tec·tive work
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word detective work.
Princeton's WordNet
detection, detecting, detective work, sleuthingnoun
a police investigation to determine the perpetrator
"detection is hard on the feet"
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of detective work in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of detective work in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of detective work in a Sentence
The detective work of epidemiology will make or break the response to this outbreak.
You don't have control of Ebola until you know where all your transmission chains are and until your cases are coming from known contact lists, you always hear about disease detective work and that is what Ebola is about now.
Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson:
The detective work that we have seen in this case is indicative of the work that our detectives do every day in this city.
It’s really the detective work of epidemiology that will make or break the response to this outbreak.
What we get with these readings is a bit of scientific detective work which allows us a glimpse of not just what was happening on the ground but the effects of the bombing at the edge of space.
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